Walter Salles

"I was 16, 17, maybe, when I spoke with Walter for the first time," Kristen Stewart is saying about director Walter Salles, whose film version of the Jack Kerouac novel "On the Road" premiered as one of the competition titles (unawarded, as it turned out) at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Stewart and company spoke at the morning press conference after the first Cannes screening. In the movie the actress, now 22, plays Marylou, the fictionalized version of LuAnne Henderson, whose adventures with the Kerouac characters Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) and narrator Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) provide "On the Road" with its central triangle. "We found...

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"I was 16, 17, maybe, when I spoke with Walter for the first time," Kristen Stewart is saying about director Walter Salles, whose film version of the Jack Kerouac novel "On the Road" premiered as one of the competition titles (unawarded, as it turned out)...